Healthcare Recruiting · Houston, TX

Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Houston, grounded in the metro's real numbers.

We track the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.

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Provider supply

Who practices in Houston today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

23,923

Physicians

9,592

Nurse practitioners

3,446

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Houston metro added 592 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 227 physicians, and 142 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.

Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Texas side of the Houston metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Houston-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

101,179 employed, up 4.2% year over year. Average wages up 10.1% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

198,897 employed across 15,751 sites.

Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.

Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See Texas pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

50 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Houston area.

6 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.

Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.

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